How to Use Microsoft Ready-Made VM Images for VMware and VBox

Microsoft Officially Offering Ready-Made VirtualBox And VMWare Images

Microsoft Offering ready made pre-installed windows operating system to test Internet Explorer  , virtual machine images are available for windows ,mac and linux virtualization solutions , for cross browser testing , so you can test your site in different operating systems .

IE versions being offered are:

• IE7 on Vista
• IE8 on Windows 7
• IE9 on Windows 7
• IE10 on Windows 8

Offered  VMs that will run on:

• Windows
• OSX
• Linux

The VM software choices are specific to the OS you choose:

• Windows – Hyper-V, Virtual PC, VirtualBox & VMWare Player
• OSX- VirtualBox & VMWare Fusion
• Linux – VirtualBox

Cross-browser testing
simplified

You have to just download and open vbox files with virtualbox or vmx files with vmware and you will get all pre-installed windows operating system , and you are good to go ,
there is pre-installed windows 8 virtual image if you want to test drive windows 8 🙂

How to Install virtual images :

1. Download Virtual Images
2. extract it somehwhere
3. open vmware player or workstation
4. click on file >> open
5. locate  ” somefile”.vmx
6. it will load up virtual image component